(n.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three acidic polysaccharides (PS-1, PS-2, and PS-3) were extracted from the coccoliths with EDTA and were separated and purified by differential precipitation with magnesium ions and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose.
(2) Bibliographic data concerning the variability of coccosphere and coccoliths during the life-cycle of two extant Coccolithophorid species (Calcidiscus gr.
(3) The coccoliths from the species Emilania huxleyi (Lohmann) Kamptner contain a water-soluble acid polysaccharide.
(4) The method is illustrated by application to mixtures of the constituent sugars of the capsular polysaccharide from Klebsiella type 57, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, mucus glycoproteins, and the methylated, acidic polysaccharide from the coccoliths of Emiliania huxleyi (Lohmann) Kamptner.
(5) A large-scale cultivation of the Coccolithophoridae was worked out and a new procedure for isolating coccoliths was developed.
(6) This species is useful for the study of mineralization, because it produces calcified scales known as coccoliths in homogeneous cell culture.
(7) A polysaccharide associated with coccoliths of the marine alga Emiliania huxleyi (coccoliths are elaborately shaped calcite biominerals) was isolated and its influence on the crystallization of calcium oxalate monohydrate crystals was studied.
(8) sibogae) are summarized and completed by new observations on the structure of the proximal shield by fossil coccoliths.
(9) C-occolithophoridae, a group of mostly unicellular algae, possess a cell wall containing calcified plates, called coccoliths.
(10) These observations also point out the possibility of a diachronous evolution of the two shields of the same coccolith type, underlining the necessity for a better knowledge of the proximal shield structure, usually somewhat neglected.
(11) Such intermediate coccoliths have been previously described from the Badenian (middle Miocene) of central Europe.
(12) The possible role of the polysaccharide as a heterogeneous matrix in coccolith formation is discussed.
(13) leptoporus in the latest Miocene (Messinian) assemblages from three oceanic localities (central Pacific, eastern equatorial Atlantic and southwestern Indian oceans) indicates the co-occurrence of two types of coccoliths: (1) typical C. gr.
(14) A polysaccharide with similar properties could be isolated from subfossil coccoliths of E. hyxleyi (about 1000 years old).
Marine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
(a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.
(a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
(a.) The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.
(a.) A picture representing some marine subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(2) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
(3) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(4) omega-Conotoxin GVIA is a peptide purified from the venom of the marine snail, Conus geographus, that specifically blocks voltage-sensitive calcium channels in neurons.
(5) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
(6) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(7) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
(8) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(9) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
(10) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
(11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(12) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(13) Intramembrane faces were visualized in the marine dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra by the freeze-fracture technique, in order to test a prediction of a membrane model for circadian oscillations--i.e;, that membrane particle distribution and size change with time in the circadian cycle.
(14) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
(15) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(16) Two new isomeric delta-lactones 2 and 3 have been isolated from the marine fungus Helicascus kanaloanus (ATCC 18591).
(17) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(18) Greg Hunt , the environment minister, said he will use the existing Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority act to “put in place this ban in legislative form”.
(19) Modern lungfish are air-breathing nonmarine forms, yet their Devonian forebears were marine fish that did not breathe air.
(20) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.